Dolphins play with bubble rings (video)
January 28th, 2008
You’ve all seen someone blow smoke rings, even if it was only in a movie. Well, the same physics seem to apply underwater. This video appears to show dolphins blowing bubbles underwater, and then using a jet of water to turn them into bubble rings – donut shaped bubbles (or torus-shaped, if you want to be scientific about it). They dolphins are very skilled at it, and look like they’re having fun, too.
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3 Comments
1. none | February 26th, 2008 at 9:51 am
They look quite bored in that aquarium…
And yup dolphins are very intelligent! (look at the dolphin soldiers during the war)
2. dee mc Cullough | June 10th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Simply beautiful
3. zeno | February 23rd, 2009 at 5:06 pm
I suspect there is a clue in this sentence:
“This video appears to show dolphins blowing bubbles underwater, and then using a jet of water to turn them into bubble rings”
‘appears’? I’m sceptical that a dolphin would be able to create these rings and it is not clear from the video how they seem to be doing it – they just seem to appear out of nowhere. Also, there are a couple of occasions where they disrupt a ring and a smaller, complete ring magically appears…
Mmmm…
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